{"id":38,"date":"2012-05-11T03:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianawake.com\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2020-05-22T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T00:57:39","slug":"theology-speak-decoded","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theologia.blog\/index.php\/theology-speak-decoded\/","title":{"rendered":"Theology-Speak Decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why, oh, why all the bewildering language?! Words should not be in themselves barriers or\u00a0intimidators to understanding truths about God. Here is a list of some of the more common bafflers.<\/p>\n

This is an ever-evolving page, and I will add to the list periodically. You can follow the appropriate links where available for more thorough explanations of the terms.<\/p>\n

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Active righteousness<\/strong> – Satisfying the law commands.<\/p>\n

Aseity<\/strong> – Self-existence, that God derives his existence from himself, not something else<\/p>\n

Atonement<\/strong> (Substitutionary Atonement)<\/p>\n

Attributes<\/strong> – Things about someone or something that can change or be eliminated.<\/p>\n

Christology<\/strong> – The study about Jesus Christ<\/p>\n

Conversion<\/strong> – The spiritual change that takes place in a person moving from a state of being against God to being right with God; it also has to do with the general change of attitude and lifestyle toward godly living. See Three Ways to Understand Conversion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cosmogony<\/strong> – A view of the origin of the world<\/p>\n

Cosmologic Dualism<\/strong> – There are two primary, eternal forms of being, one is God and the other is the World (God\/matter, good\/evil, light\/darkness)<\/p>\n

Cosmologic Monism<\/strong> – There is only one ultimate form of being: all things are in some way a part of this one being (matter, God (Pantheism)-God and the world are the same essence)<\/p>\n

Cosmology –<\/strong> A view of the cosmos as a whole<\/p>\n

Doctrine<\/strong> – Teaching, what is taught, the content of teaching. The scope is theology and ethics.<\/p>\n

Dogma<\/strong> – An official pronouncement as formulated by an official church body<\/p>\n

Essence<\/strong> – Things about someone or something that are unchanging.<\/p>\n

Eternal<\/strong> – Unlimited with respect to time. God is eternal in his being and consciousness.<\/p>\n

Eucharist –<\/p>\n

Ex nihilo<\/strong> – \u201cOut of nothing\u201d, that God creates the world out of nothing.<\/p>\n

Exegesis<\/strong> – Refers to trying to understand what a writer meant when he originally wrote a text. It is the attempt to try to figure out the author’s original, intended meaning. Examining 1 John 1:5-10<\/a> is an example. We all do exegesis on some level whenever we try to figure out what the Bible meant to those original hearers.<\/p>\n

Expiate<\/strong> – To remove or cover (sins). Expiation is the result of propitiation.<\/p>\n

Foreknowledge<\/strong> – God\u2019s before-the-fact knowledge of what will happen in the actual future, without his necessarily having determined to cause it. See Does God Know the Future.<\/a><\/p>\n

General providence<\/strong> – God works indirectly through his permissive will only. He works through natural law and free-will choices.<\/p>\n

General Revelation<\/strong> – True knowledge about God as perceived from nature. This knowledge is general in nature, non-verbal, limited in content, form and effectiveness. It is available to anyone.<\/p>\n

Hermeneutics<\/strong> – In a broad scope it is what the entire study of interpretation is called. In a narrower scope it refers to trying to figure out what an ancient text means for us today, or how it applies to us today. We all do hermeneutics whenever we read the Bible and try to figure out how to apply it to our lives.<\/p>\n

Holiness<\/strong> – Separate, distinct. Ethical and ontological: separate from sin (communicable), and separate in his being (transcendence) (non-communicable).<\/p>\n

Immanence\u00a0– <\/strong>God\u2019s presence within his creation. He is present, not absent.<\/p>\n

Immensity<\/strong> – God is unmeasurable in terms of his own creation.<\/p>\n

Immutability<\/strong> – God is unchanging in his nature and will.<\/p>\n

Imparted righteousness<\/strong> – God gives us the ability to do righteousness (sanctification)<\/p>\n

Imputed righteousness<\/strong> – God credits his righteousness to our account as a gift (justification)<\/p>\n

Inerrant<\/strong> – absence of error, not containing any errors (as pertaining to the Bible)<\/p>\n

Infallible<\/strong> – incapable of error, not able to err<\/p>\n

Inspiration<\/strong> – the supernatural influence by the Holy Spirit on individuals so they could communicate revealed knowledge from God without error or omission.<\/p>\n

Justification<\/strong> – forgiveness; to be declared righteous as if having satisfied the law\u2019s penalty.<\/p>\n

Moral law<\/strong> – commandments that reflect God\u2019s holy nature.<\/p>\n

Omnipotent<\/strong> – unlimited in regard to power<\/p>\n

Omnipresent<\/strong> – unlimited with respect to space.<\/p>\n

Omniscient<\/strong> – unlimited in regard to knowledge; all-knowing.<\/p>\n

Open Theism<\/strong> – the systematic belief that God does not know the future actions of his free will creatures (see Does God Know the Future<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Panentheism<\/strong> – The philosophy that God is in the universe and the universe is in God, though God is greater than the universe.<\/p>\n

Pantheism<\/strong> – The philosophy that God and the world are the same essence.<\/p>\n

Passive righteousness<\/strong> – satisfying the law\u2019s penalties.<\/p>\n

Permissive will<\/strong> – God permits things to happen through natural law and free will. He may or may not want them to happen.<\/p>\n

Plenary inspiration<\/strong> – everything in the Bible is inspired (history, etc)<\/p>\n

Pneumatology<\/strong> – the study of the Holy Spirit<\/p>\n

Positive law<\/strong> – in a biblical context, commandments that God gives for specific reasons of his will (for people, places, times, etc.)<\/p>\n

Preceptive will<\/strong> – things God wants to happen but doesn\u2019t make happen (God\u2019s precepts or commands)<\/p>\n

Propitiation<\/strong> – An offering that takes away wrath. Or, turning away divine wrath by putting forth another object to be consumed. Jesus is called “the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 2:2<\/a>) because by his death he took away God’s wrath from coming on us.<\/p>\n

Providence<\/strong> – how God interacts with creation. His continuous activity in preserving and governing creation.<\/p>\n

Purposive will<\/strong> – God causes some things to happen when his purposes call for it.<\/p>\n

Reconciliation<\/strong> – resolving the differences between two disputing parties by the use of a third party mediator<\/p>\n

Redeem<\/strong> – to set free by paying a price<\/p>\n

Redemption<\/strong> – arranging for the release of a person or property from someone\u2019s possession by paying that person the price he demands<\/p>\n

Revelation<\/strong> – God revealing knowledge to his creation<\/p>\n

Righteousness<\/strong> – conformity to the proper norm, law, or standard. God always acts in accordance with his perfect nature. He is true to his promises and warnings.<\/p>\n

Sanctification<\/strong> – the process of becoming holy.<\/p>\n

Sovereignty<\/strong> – that God has absolute rule and nothing is over against him.<\/p>\n

Special providence<\/strong> – God works directly upon natural law for his specific purposes (purposive will); does not violate natural law. He doe this to make things come about that would not have otherwise.<\/p>\n

Special Revelation<\/strong> – specific in nature, content, and purpose. Can be non-verbal or verbal. God specifically revealing information through various means. Word revelation is a form of special revelation.<\/p>\n

Theistic determinism<\/strong> – every detail of every event is totally dependent on God in every sense. (Calvinism). Everything is caused by God.<\/p>\n

Theology Proper<\/strong> – the study of God specifically.<\/p>\n

Theology<\/strong> – from theos and logos meaning God and reasoning\/thinking; a study about God.<\/p>\n

Theophany<\/strong> – a manifestation of God through a physical phenomena (angel, burning bush). Appearance of God in human or other form.<\/p>\n

Theosis<\/strong> – the idea that man can become divine<\/p>\n

Transcendence<\/strong> – God\u2019s nature or essence is qualitatively different from his created beings; concerns his nature, not his location.<\/p>\n

Trinity<\/strong> – While not in the Bible, this word refers to the idea that God is three persons in one: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

Verbal inspiration<\/strong> – the Holy Spirit guarded and approved every word of scripture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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